Sony strikes deal with Discovery, will not delete purchased programming from Play Stations

[thewayne]

In an eleventh hour deal, an agreement was made and people's purchases of shows like Myth Busters will not be remotely purged from their gaming consoles in the deep of the night. Over 1,300 Discovery shows were slated to be wiped on New Year's Eve, sans agreement, this is good news to those who bought digital copies rather than physical media.

Sadly, in August of last year, purchasers of Studio Canal content did not receive such a reprieve and lost their content due to a collapsed licensing agreement.

PHYSICAL MEDIA, PEOPLE! THEY CAN'T LICENSE THAT AWAY FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE IT IN YOUR HAND!

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/playstation-will-not-delete-discovery-tv-shows-after-all

Comments

[silveradept]

Physical media is important, but there's still too much stuff that never gets a physical release, so that you never get the opportunity to hold it in your hands. At that point, it's either let it go or give the finger to the DMCA, and I'm pretty sure enough people have been raised to understand that "keep circulating the tapes" is the correct and moral answer.

[thewayne]

And they wonder why they can never fully eliminate media piracy.

[silveradept]

That would require listening to customers and giving them what they want.